Monday, June 29, 2015
$1 bill set to be turned into $26m at London auction
Andy Warhol painting of $1 bill set to be turned into $26m at London auction
A painting of a one dollar bill can be bought in London next week. You will, however, need as much as $26m to buy it.
The work by Andy Warhol, Silver Certificate, is part of the most valuable contemporary art auction that has been staged in the capital.
On Wednesday, Sotheby’s will sell art with a pre-sale estimate of between £143.2m and £204.6m, including an important Pope painting by Francis Baconand a significant number of works by living British artists such as Peter Doig, David Hockney, Paula Rego and Howard Hodgkin.
At Christie’s on Tuesday, the total estimate is lower (£82m-£117m) but a world record price for the artist is expected for a spectacular work by Chris Ofili, The Holy Virgin Mary, which famously attracted the ire of the former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who described it as “sick stuff” and tried to close down an exhibition featuring the work.
Contemporary art prices are unquestionably going through the roof, with a string of auction records for living artists in the past year.
SECRETS FOR A RELAXED FACIAL SKIN -- SKIN BEAUTY
Having a tonic and a nice clean face is not easy as we think. This is confirmed by the new discoveries in the field of dermatology which clarify better the dynamics associated with aging facial skin. Starting from the age of 40, the skin is prepared to be less tonic, which is especially emphatically displayed among women, with no natural glow and wrinkles that previously appeared less and now which begin to impose visibly in the face.
Skin Beauty can be achieved with the right effort and good will, which in return gives you a more relaxed facial skin.
The skin is the mirror of health. Eating well, sleeping enough, reducing stress, constant hydration of the skin, protecting the skin from solar radiation are factors of having a healthy skin.
To avoid facial skin to remain with the signs of years that pass through, you should use a good cream with a high factor of protection and nutrition. Greasy skin is characterized by increased production of sweat, which gives an oily look to the face.
The main causes of the increased level of sweat are the comedones (blackheads). Moreover, the increased level of testosterone in the blood is often the cause of oily skin for the women as well as men. It is often characterized by the age of adolescence, but can also provoke other factors, such as smoking or incorrect food. The most important care for a greasy skin is its cleaning, which should be cautious but not aggressive.
The easiest ways of correct facial cleaning can avoid various aesthetic problems: black spots and dirt. In this case for cleaning the face it should be used slightly an acid soap.
Occasionally, apply a skin deep cleaning, using purifying masks. But there are also simple and natural methodologies to combat wrinkles and give skin a lifting effect. Facial massages or homemade facial masks protect our skin face from wrinkles but a warm shower, long relaxing warm baths can unfortunately dry our skin. Above all that, it is necessary the care and interest for your skin. At least every 2 months, visit the esthetician, to make facial steam and clean your face with specific cleansing lotions.
Make sure to check out our general guide All About Care too!
How Police Caught Escaped Prisoners Richard Matt and David Sweat
Officials announced they had reason to believe Sweat and Matt, who escaped June 6 from theClinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, were planning to head to the border in a final play for freedom. As a result, U.S. and Canadian law enforcement sent reinforcements in an effort to squeeze the escapees and keep them from potentially making it out of the country.
Sometime before 2 p.m. Friday, a person pulling a camper near Duane, New York, heard a sound and later discovered after pulling into a campsite that there was a bullet hole in it, state police said.
After that, a tactical team was deployed to a nearby cabin near Elephant's Head, New York, about 20 miles south of the Canadian border.
Inside, they noticed the smell of gun powder. While searching the grounds, investigators noticed movement and heard coughing, state police said.
At about 3:20 p.m., State Police Sgt. Jay Cook was on a routine patrol in the area of Constable, New York, about 1.5 miles south of the Canadian border, when he spotted Sweat on a road, police said.
Cook ordered him to stop, but Sweat started to run, police said.
Cook then opened fire, striking Sweat twice in the torso, police said.
Sweat, who was serving a life sentence after he was convicted of killing a sheriff's deputy, was not armed, New York State Police Superintendent Joseph D'Amico said. No law enforcement personnel were injured during the capture, an official briefed on the manhunt said.
Police Open Fire After Responding to Report of Shooting in Pico-Union
Los Angeles police opened fire after arriving at the scene of a shooting in progress early Monday morning in the Pico-Union neighborhood, an LAPD spokesman said.
Sunday, June 28, 2015
UN Report Finds a Buzz Over Pot
A U.N. report released Friday finds that while marijuana is enjoying a high in both legal and illegal usage, cocaine is coming off the high it enjoyed in prior decades.
Those that do use marijuana, whether illegally or through increasingly accessible legal options, are consuming a stronger narcotic nowadays, the report found.
The U.N. found increasing demand for the drug as U.S. states experiment with legalizing or decriminalizing the hallucinogen. But efforts to eradicate supplies of cocaine appear to have worked in places like Colombia and Peru, which have decreased demand from a shrinking number of addicts.
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The demand for drugs remains, however, especially in places like Afghanistan, where production of opium reached record highs last year since the first record-keeping on drugs in that nation began in 1998, according to the World Drugs Report by the United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime.
“It is estimated that almost a quarter of a billion people between the ages of 15 and 64 years used an illicit drug in 2013,” according to the report, which adds that overall level of drug use has remained relatively stable in recent years.
Global cultivation of cocaine shrank 10 percent between 2012 and 2013, and seizures of the drug also dipped 9 percent between 2008 and 2013, the UN reports. Marijuana is in a boom period, however, not just in sales but also "rapid advancement in cannabis plant cultivation techniques,'' to improve the concentration of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, which is the active chemical in cannabis, the report adds.
Potency of marijuana has risen in the U.S., as THC levels increased from less than 3.4 percent in 1993 to 8.8 percent in 2008, according to the report. The seizures of herbal cannabis worldwide shrank 14 percent between 2008 and 2013, but seizures of cannabis resin drugs including hash increased 11 percent during that time.
The combination of competition from the growing legal marijuana industry in the U.S. and the waning demand for cocaine, once a cash crop for drug dealers, has hit cartels hard, says Carl Meacham, the director of the America’s program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. The criminal organizations of Mexico are also still recovering from a war between law enforcement in that nation and against other cartels, he adds.
“They will lose a lot of money because of law enforcement, but it is still lucrative enough for them to do this business,” he says.
Votes to legalize pot in Colorado, Washington State, Alaska, Oregon and Washington, D.C. have stimulated demand for the drug which has cut into the business of illegal dealers. Banks are reluctant to do business with marijuana businesses but there is a great demand to open shops – including among the Mexican cartels, he explains.
“It’s like right after the end of alcohol prohibition, when all the illegal bootleggers made legal their business when it became legal,” he says.
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